There is no doubt that accidents involving large commercial trucks like tractor-trailers, semi-trucks, big rigs, and 18-wheelers cause serious damage. By many standards of measurement, truck accidents are far worse than car accidents, despite occurring less frequently. The risks of being a truck driver are significant—as are the risks to the drivers of cars, small trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles that share the road with large commercial vehicles.

The former owner of Skyline Healthcare, a company that owned or operated over 100 skilled nursing facilities in 11 states, is facing new charges in Arkansas—a total of 10 felony charges. Former owner Joseph Schwartz is being charged by the Arkansas Attorney General’s office with two counts of tax fraud and eight counts of Medicaid fraud. Over the past several years, Skyline Healthcare facilities across the country have been investigated for numerous allegations, including fraud, resident neglect, unpaid staff wages, bounced checks, short staffing, wrongful death, missing payroll documentation, inadequate COVID-19 prevention measures, and a host of other issues, causing many of the facilities to close their doors.

Residents in nursing homes often receive medication because they have health issues. It’s important that residents only receive the medication they’re prescribed and need for their existing physical and mental illnesses.

However, residents in long-term care facilities sometimes are given medications they don’t need to keep them restrained, more manageable, or in a stupor. This is sometimes done to keep residents quieter, more docile, or need less individual care. The problem is this violates their rights. Elderly residents deserve to live their lives free from restraints of any kind and free from unnecessary medications. When they’re given medications they don’t need, it can cause their physical and mental health to rapidly decline.

Let’s take a look at the prevalent issue of overmedication in nursing homes and how a lawyer can potentially help your loved one get justice if they are being overmedicated.

McMath Woods P.A. is excited to announce that seven of our personal injury lawyers have made the 28th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The rigorous selection process to find the top lawyers in the country involves peer-reviews and feedback to make sure those named are the best at what they do. This list is a resource to those who are in need of finding a lawyer who can help them get justice.

If you’re in the process of filing a personal injury claim, you may encounter terminology or language that you may have not heard before. If you have a compassionate attorney on your side, you likely won’t need to know every single word used in court since most things will be explained to you, but it’s a good idea to have a solid understanding of what’s being said regardless to feel more comfortable in the courtroom and confident when discussing your case.

When you’ve fallen and sprained your wrist or sustained a soft tissue injury to your wrist in another way, you’re likely in pain and feeling restricted because of the limited movement. Even if you want to use your wrist like normal, it could hurt too badly to move.

Soft tissue damage, unfortunately, can take some time to heal. Without letting yourself recover, you could sustain permanent damage in your wrist. Here’s what you need to know about how soft tissue injury wrist recovery time and how long you may need to give yourself before you can comfortably use your wrist as you normally would.

Driving at night can be harder than the daytime—it’s dark, there might not be streetlamps to help you see, and the other cars’ headlights could cause a glare. This is frustrating because headlights are necessary at night, but sometimes they just seem too bright.

After the death of your loved one, you might be interested in recovering benefits and damages from the negligent party who was responsible for causing their untimely passing. If they hadn’t been killed, your loved one would have been able to file a personal injury claim to sue the liable party, but since they’re gone, a family member is left to make the claim for them.

Accidents caused by someone else’s negligence can cause serious injuries to victims. Sometimes those injuries are severe and can cause fatalities. When your loved one passes away from someone else’s negligence, you likely will want to seek justice and compensation so that you can recover emotionally and financially.

McMath Woods is extremely proud and excited to announce that John Coulter has been elected as a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers! Election as a Fellow is the highest recognition by one’s colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication, and excellence.

The mission of The College is to further establish our profession in all its aspects as one uniquely important to the world of labor and employment law, individual rights, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. Please join us in congratulating John and celebrating this milestone in his career. Congratulations, John!